Six suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of Madam Achejuh Abuh, Woman Leader of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Wada/Aro campaign council, Kogi State, by the police.
The spokesman of Kogi State Police Command, DSP William Aya, made this known on Monday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Lokoja.
The six suspects, Aya said, were brought in on Friday.
Abuh was set ablaze on November 18 at her husband’s house at Ochadamu by people suspected to be hoodlums.
The suspects, according to the police spokesman, were already being interrogated to ascertain their level of involvement in the killing of the woman.
Aya said the outcome of the findings would be made public upon completion of investigation. .
Presdent Buhari had on Sunday charged security agencies to ensure that those behind the killing should be brought to justice.
In a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the president said he expected scrupulous investigation into the heinous murder.
The president decried whatever could spur anyone to take the life of another human being, particularly a woman, who was burnt to death in her home in the most gruesome manner.
He said justice must be served without fear or favour.
“We must learn to behave decently, whether during elections or at other times. No life should be taken wantonly under any guise, and the fact that this reprehensible act occurred two days after voting shows primitive behaviour, which should not be accepted in a decent society,” the president said.
He sympathized with the family of the deceased, vowing that the law would catch up with the malefactors, and justice would be done.
Any descent to barbarism, as was visited on the PDP Woman Leader, President Buhari said, had gone out of the realm of politics, and was pure criminality and bestiality.
“Such evildoers must be brought to justice, irrespective of whatever allegiances they hold,” the president affirmed.
